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“You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to any of your heroes. Become what you wish to be.”

Given Wish Hours Numbers Hero

Author:Andy Biersack

“I wish that the people who sing about the deeds of heroes would think about the people who have to clear up after them.”

People Thinking Wish Clear Hero Deeds

Book:The Carpet People

Source: The Carpet People

“I would never behave with so little dignity. Nor would I wish to be confronted in such a manner by anyone else. Vampires inspire screams, not squees. Involuntary urination is common, I grant, but it properly flows from a sense of terror, not an ecstatic sense of hero worship.”

Littles Wish Common Inspire Hero Worship Flow Dignity Terror Vampire Behave Grants Scream Ecstatic Involuntary Hero Worship

Book:Hammered (with bonus short story): The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book Three

Source: Hammered (with bonus short story): The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book Three

“I don't hate men, I just wish they'd try harder. Theyall want to be heroes and all we want is for them to stay at home and help with the housework and the kids. That's not the kind of heroism they enjoy.”

Men Want Trying Kind Helping Home Kids Hate Wish Enjoy Hero Harder Heroism Hate Me Housework Stay At Home Don't Hate

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“My son, I do not say these are foals and those asses, these little monkeys and those great baboons, as you would have me do. As I told you from the first, I regard them as earth's heroes. But I do not wish to believe them without cause, nor to accept those propositions whose antitheses (as you must have understood if you are not both blind and deaf) are so compellingly true.”

Ifs Firsts Believe Littles Earth Wish Causes Accepting Atheism Son Hero Understood Regard Blind Ass My Son Monkeys Propositions Deaf Antithesis Baboons Foals

Book:Cause, Principle, and Unity: Five Dialogues

Source: Cause, Principle, and Unity: Five Dialogues

“We wish our Christian brothers would be honest and permit us our heroes. We do not deny them theirs.”

Would Be Christian Wish Atheism Honest Brother Hero Deny Positive Atheism Being Honest Permit Christian Brothers

Book:What on Earth Is an Atheist!

Source: What on Earth Is an Atheist!

“I wish heroes didn't exist. Whenever we need a hero, it's because there's a problem that needs to be solved; it's because two groups of people, or two countries, are hurting one another, so a hero is needed to save us. If everyone were at peace, if everyone were happy, why would we need heroes? The world is better off without heroes.”

People Ifs World Needs Two Country Problem Wish Hurt Groups Hero Needed Better Off Two Countries

Author:Jet Li

“Whatever may be your desire to accomplish great deeds, the deep silence of pregnancy never comes to you! The event of the day sweeps you along like straws before the wind whilst ye lie under the illusion that ye are chasing the event,-poor fellows! If a man wishes to act the hero on the stage he must not think of forming part of the chorus; he should not even know how the chorus is made up.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Men Should May Made Lying Desire Wish Poor Silence Know How Stage Events Wind Hero Illusion Fellows Deeds Accomplish Pregnancy Chasing Chorus Straws

Book:The Dawn of Day

Source: The Dawn of Day

“Making a judgment, taking a stand and then acting against an injustice or acting to support excellence is the stuff of the everyman hero. If you are an aspiring artist and you wish to avoid “judgments,” you'll find that you have nothing to say.”

Ifs Artist Wish Stuff Acting Support Hero Judgment Excellence Injustice Everyman

Author:Steven Pressfield

“If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy.”

Ifs Men Firsts Wish Enemy Hero Dragons My Hero Heroines Serpent

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche